"
"Sure we will, and I'm glad of the chance to see what valuable
butterflies look like," Andy went on to remark.
"He says this little collection is a very rare one, and worth an awfully
large sum of money," Sallie went on to remark, in something of a
confidential tone, as if getting the boys ready to be surprised when
they looked upon the possessions of the industrious professor. "And oh!
if you could only hear all the queer things he's been telling us that
happened to him in foreign lands, when he was spending ever so much
money, and long weary months, finding these very rare specimens. Why, I
just stand there, and look at them, and wonder how people can be so
foolish, when it seems to me I've seen much prettier butterflies right
out there in our fields where the thistles are blooming."
It seemed that the room they had given the wonderful man of science was
on the ground floor, and opened off the parlor.
The two boys followed Sallie in, and noted her rather awed manner 5
evidently the professor, whether he turned out to be a fraud or the
genuine article, had succeeded in arousing both her admiration and
wonder.
The room was plainly yet comfortably furnished, but evidently the
professor, like so many other learned savants, did not know such a thing
as "order" existed, for things were simply topsy-turvy.
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